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System Properties Comparison H2GIS vs. MonetDB vs. RethinkDB vs. ToroDB vs. Vitess

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NameH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparisonToroDB  Xexclude from comparisonVitess  Xexclude from comparison
ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionSpatial extension of H2A relational database management system that stores data in columnsDBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.A MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQLScalable, distributed, cloud-native DBMS, extending MySQL
Primary database modelSpatial DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeDocument storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Spatial DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score1.72
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Score2.74
Rank#105  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score0.82
Rank#209  Overall
#97  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.h2gis.orgwww.monetdb.orgrethinkdb.comgithub.com/­torodb/­servervitess.io
Technical documentationwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homewww.monetdb.org/­Documentationrethinkdb.com/­docsvitess.io/­docs
DeveloperCNRSMonetDB BVThe Linux Foundation infosince July 20178KdataThe Linux Foundation, PlanetScale
Initial release20132004200920162013
Current releaseDec2023 (11.49), December 20232.4.1, August 202015.0.2, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0Open Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoAGPL-V3Open Source infoApache Version 2.0, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaCC++JavaGo
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java 7 VMDocker
Linux
macOS
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometryyes infostring, integer, double, boolean, date, object_idyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsnoyes infowith proprietary extensions
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJavaC
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
C infocommunity-supported driver
C# infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infocommunity-supported driver
Clojure infocommunity-supported driver
Dart infocommunity-supported driver
Erlang infocommunity-supported driver
Go infocommunity-supported driver
Haskell infocommunity-supported driver
Java infoofficial driver
JavaScript (Node.js) infoofficial driver
Lisp infocommunity-supported driver
Lua infocommunity-supported driver
Objective-C infocommunity-supported driver
Perl infocommunity-supported driver
PHP infocommunity-supported driver
Python infoofficial driver
Ruby infoofficial driver
Scala infocommunity-supported driver
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infobased on H2yes, in SQL, C, Ryes infoproprietary syntax
TriggersyesyesClient-side triggers through changefeedsnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding via remote tablesSharding inforange basedShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infobased on H2none infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusSource-replica replicationSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnonoyes infonot for MyISAM storage engine
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDAtomic single-document operationsnoACID at shard level
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes infoMVCC basedyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engine
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infobased on H2fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infousers and table-level permissionsAccess rights for users and rolesUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or roles

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